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By Justine Wintjes* In the archaeology storerooms of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, lie two boxes filled with seashells. The shells...

The former Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo Eteni Longondo was placed Friday under provisional arrest for...

Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during the Cold War who was...

South Africa will extradite former Mozambique finance minister Manuel Chang to his home country, its justice department said on Monday,...

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, a controversial figure in Malian history, was born January 29, 1945, in the southern Malian city of...

By Doyin Odubanjo*, Christian Happi*, Folasade Ogunsola*, & Oyewale Tomori* The Conversation Africa recently held its first policy dialogue session where seasoned academics in...

By The Conversation Africa Skin We Are In is a landmark South African book for children (and grown-ups) on the subject of...

By Akinwumi Ogundiran* The Yoruba are among the most storied groups in Africa. Their ancestral homeland cuts across present-day southwest Nigeria, Benin Republic and Togo...

By David B. Moore* Danish director Camilla Nielsson’s documentary President (2021) is an up-close, intimate tale. It follows the election travails of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party the...

In recent years Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, has become Africa’s most attractive tech hub for investors. But that could be...